High-elevation grasslands worldwide provide essential hydrological services including
water provision, flow regulation, and erosion control. Despite their importance, hydrological …

Páramos, a neotropical alpine grassland‐peatland biome of the northern Andes and Central
America, play an essential role in regional and global cycles of water, carbon, and nutrients …

Abstract Changes in land use and land cover are major drivers of hydrological alteration in
the tropical Andes. However, quantifying their impacts is fraught with difficulties because of …

Soils of Páramo ecosystems regulate the water supply to many Andean populations. In spite
of being a necessary input to distributed hydrological models, regionalized soil water …

Abstract Atmospheric carbon (CO 2) exchange, evapotranspiration (ET) processes, and their
interactions with climatic drivers across tropical alpine grasslands are poorly understood …

Understanding how tropical montane catchments store and release water, and the resulting
water ecosystem services they provide is crucial for improving water resource management …

Satellite precipitation products are becoming increasingly useful to complement rain gauge
networks in regions where these are too sparse to capture spatial precipitation patterns …

High‐elevation tropical grassland systems, called Páramo, provide essential ecosystem
services such as water storage and supply for surrounding and lowland areas. Páramo …

Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) explains the exchange of water and energy between soil,
land surface, and atmosphere. Despite its importance, it remains difficult to measure directly …

An initial ground validation of the Integrated Multisatellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) Day-1
product from March 2014 to August 2015 is presented for the tropical Andes. IMERG was …